Jingtai County, Gansu Province, northwest China - Oct 10, 2017
1. Various of roadside trees broken by snow, damaging car
2. Thick snow on top of car
3. Resident clearing snow
4. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zhang Yuanfang, local resident:
"The sudden snow brought us much inconvenience. It covered many vehicles and makes it inconvenient for us to go out."
5. Various of roadside trees broken by snow, vehicles covered by snow, police directing traffic
6. Various of police directing traffic on highway, trapped vehicles amid dense fog
7. Various of farmer using stick to clear snow from fruit trees
8. Various of cropland covered by snow
9. Various of crops destroyed by snow
10. Various of greenhouses covered by snow

Jingtai County, Gansu Province, northwest China - Oct 9, 2017
11. Various of firefighters rescuing sheep buried under shed collapsed by snow

A heavy snow hit Jingtai County in northwest China's Gansu Province on Sunday and Monday, disrupting life and causing losses to farmers.

The temperature plummet by up to 10 degrees Celsius as accumulated snow reached 25 centimeters.

The snow left broken tree branches on roads and disrupted the traffic.

"The sudden snow brought us much inconvenience. It covered many vehicles and makes it inconvenient for us to go out," said Zhang Yuanfang, a local resident.

The snow also left ice on several provincial highway sections as the fast-falling temperature brought dense fog that reduced visibility to less than 50 meters.

It also caused huge economic losses to local farmers.

One farm suffered loss of over one million yuan after more than 200 sheep were buried under the shed amid the snow.